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In this activity, The Protagonist is put on a blazing Toad wearing a flame-proof suit, and must race through various locations Stilwater. The course is similar to a regular checkpoint race, but the timer counts down between each checkpoint instead of for the whole course.

Driving into Civilians, cars and objects sets them alight, or cause them to explode, awards points. After driving through a checkpoint, points earned are converted to extra time. This activity is made very easy on all levels by using the cheat super explosions (#7)

Driving into a fuel barrel causes it to explode, and driving into a spot marked with a flame ignites a gasoline trail which usually destroys property, cars and people.

Avoid water as it extinguishes the fire, but driving into a flame or barrel re-ignites the Toad.

Not hitting enough people and cars does not leave enough time to complete the race, but deviating from the track too much to hunt for victims does the same. The trick is to find a balance between both.

Drive on the wrong side of the road and crash into the oncoming traffic for extra time.

The Protagonist: "I just wanted to get this out of the way Mr. Mueller, I'm a big fan."Chuck: "Glad to hear it, and please...call me Chuck."The Protagonist: "So tell me about the project..."Chuck: "Well we're looking to do a follow up to our blockbuster documentary "Skeeters on Fire", which really captured the youth market. What I'm imagining is something edgy, something urban...something I like to call "Bangers on Fire". See, it's abou-"The Protagonist: "I'm in."Chuck: "Really? Most people have some questions about the safety of th-"The Protagonist: "I just wanna light stuff on fire, you don't have to sell me..."Chuck: "OK, let's just get you registered with the union and we'll have you running around in a flame suit in no time..."

Blake: "Thanks for stoppin' by...the brothers of Theta appreciate it."The Protagonist: "The brothers of Theta better have cash."Blake: "Don't worry, we'll scratch one of our pub crawls, that should cover whatever you charge."The Protagonist: "So what's the problem?"Blake: "Those jag-offs in Gamma beat our step team, now they think they're hot shit...we need someone to knock 'em down a peg."The Protagonist: "You got anything I can use so they know you sent the message?"Blake: "This year we bought a flame suit for pledge hazing, you think you can find a way to work that in?"The Protagonist: "Oh yeah..."

Kinzie's Trail Blazing activity takes place in cyberspace, where an avatar of The Protagonist rides on an X-2 Phantom through a pipe. The objective is to race down the pipe while hitting Deckers in ASPs and avoiding Firewalls, which add and deduct time respectively.

Kinzie Kensington hosts this activity, and states that The Protagonist needs to race through cyberspace in order to hack the Deckers and pinpoint their locations in real life.

When this activity is started as a mission through the Cellphone, it is named "Cyber Blazing", but the on-screen help text, the Upgrades menu and the activity marker all say "Trail Blazing".

Protagonist: "I thought someone who just got out of captivity would want to live it up a little more."Kinzie: "Not really, I hate people."Protagonist: "Oh. So do you have anything on the Deckers?"Kinzie: "Not yet."Protagonist: "What have you been doing since you got out?"Kinzie: "Power leveling."Protagonist: "You're killing me, Kinzie."Kinzie: "I can't help you take down the Deckers until I know where they're hiding. So, I wrote a program that tracks a user's physical location while they're logged on."Protagonist: "That's ... awesome?"Kinzie: "Just play the damn game and I can pinpoint where the Deckers are in real life."Protagonist: "Now we're talkin'."